From a lifetime android user ios didn’t have that feature? What the hell, or would you just install a third party maps app to have it.
I’ve always used google maps on my iPhone and it has offline maps. I use it pretty regularly on trips to be damn sure I can get where I’m going regardless of cell signal.
I never used Apple Maps because it was HORRIBLE when it first came out. I used it a few times more recently and it’s actually pretty decent. With offline maps I might give it another real try.
I find that Apple Maps gives very solid arrival estimates. When I used Google Maps it always seemed to over or undershoot the length of time it would take me to get where I was going in the moment. I also find that Apple’s voice guidance seems to be better and clearer about what it wants you to do. I switched over to it exclusively about two years ago.
Offline maps are a little above a “nice to have” feature for me. However, I think it makes it worth giving it another solid try for a few weeks. I’ll check it out as soon as iOS 17 hits.
Damn, reminds me of when they announced copy and paste was coming to their phones as if it was some incredible breakthrough, and yet everyone else had it on their phones for a long time already.
Now they’re adding basic map features from a decade ago and have the gaul to suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative?
I wonder what other old, basic phone features Apple customers just don’t have. I feel sorry for them, people playing that much for a premium device deserve better.
suggest to their customers that it’s new and innovative
I’m a big Apple critic too but to be fair that message reads pretty neutral. Where do you see the claim it’s new and innovative?
They still don’t have touchscreen support for MacOS. Windows added. Multi-touch sorry in the early 00’s. It’s absolute insanity
You mean back in ios3 in 2009? I wonder what phones you think everyone else had back then.
The fact that this is the only new “innovation” worth writing an article about is sad. Technological progress has declined so much over the last decade as Big Tech has consolidated the market. Doesn’t help the every minor leap gets turned into a subscription these days either.
It’s news from over three months ago. This is just a screenshot highlighting a single new feature from the iOS 17 page.
You could give an iOS user a current Android phone that has an iOS-like launch screen and an Apple logo on the back and tell them it’s the new iPhone with a whole bunch of new features.
I mean, why don’t we just do this anyway? iPhone is obsolete at this point.
First USB-C, now this?! They’re really spoiling us
But it’s only at usb 2.0 speeds
When was the last time you transferred data to or from your phone by cable? The USB port is mostly only for charging.
Actually this morning
Ok then you are probably not the target audience
Just because I use my phones usb port often doesn’t mean others who don’t should get obsolete technology.
Not to also mention most people probably don’t want to pay for cloud storage and transferring images to a computer with more storage makes the most sense for those people.
what are those people gonna do when their $900 phone that they overplayed for takes 3 hours to transfer 50gb worth of photos?
I torrent movies on my phone and move them to my media server all the time.
Having USB 3.0 on my phone makes it a lot faster than it would be with 2.0
This is such an overblown complaint. I’d wager a bet that a VAST majority of users never do any data transfer from their cell phones at all anyway, but if you are someone that needs faster transfer, the pro supports it.
Textbook Apple fanboy reply.
And still the biggest bullshit on iPhones is still the lack of clip board and how the copied item will vanish after 20 mins… my ADHD brain won’t remember what I needed that copied thing for because as soon as I see my Home Screen I will end up on a different app and spend an hour on there
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